View on the Potomac--Near Harper's Ferry / F.F. Palmer del. ; Currier & Ives Lith., N.Y. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures View on the Potomac--Near Harper's Ferry / F.F. Palmer del. ; Currier & Ives Lith., N.Y. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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View on the Potomac--Near Harper's Ferry / F.F. Palmer del. ; Currier & Ives Lith., N.Y.
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This lithograph looks along the Potomac River near Harper's Ferry, where the Shenandoah joins it in a gap of the Blue Ridge, a scene that drew travelers and artists long before the Civil War. The print was drawn by F.F. Palmer and published by Currier & Ives in New York around 1866, a year after the war ended and while the town was still recovering from years of changing hands between Union and Confederate forces. Its catalog subject headings emphasize horseback riding, so the riders are as much a part of the composition as the river. Palmer was one of the firm's most prolific landscape artists, and his views helped shape how many Americans pictured their rivers and countryside in the decades after the war.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1866. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Landscape prints 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 5366. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6966. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--1860-1870. Potomac River--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,872 × 1,500 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112060 |
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